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After visiting hundreds of museums across Alberta, Lianne McTavish chronicles some of the most challenging and unexpected sites where the idea of the museum is being reshaped. Honouring local, rural, and Indigenous knowledge, Voluntary Detours enriches critical accounts of the past, present, and future of museums.

Small museums --- Museums and community --- Museum exhibits --- Heritage tourism --- Historic sites --- Museum conservation methods --- Alberta --- Rural conditions. --- Blackfoot Crossing Historical Park. --- Brooks Aqueduct. --- Canadian. --- Fear Wonder. --- Fort Chipewyan Bicentennial. --- Gopher Hole. --- Indigenous. --- Oil Sands Discovery. --- Wadey Centre. --- automobility. --- classification. --- colonialism. --- dioramas. --- embodied experience. --- grass-roots. --- hauntology. --- heritage. --- historic. --- micromuseums. --- museum studies. --- natural. --- nostalgia. --- open texts. --- petrocultures. --- pioneer. --- play. --- representations childhood. --- resource extraction sites. --- rurality. --- settler colonial. --- small. --- taxidermy. --- theories place. --- theory. --- visitors. --- western Canada.